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- The social background of metropolitan graduates also narrowed as time went on.
- Thus inspired, Silverberg returned to the field that gave him his start, paying far more attention to depth of character development and social background than he had in the past and mixing in elements of the modernist literature he had studied at Columbia.
- Critic Hayden Carruth noted that Fowles is preoccupied with "reshuffling classes under British socialism", evoked in the differences in social background between the characters of the working-class Frederick, and Miranda, a member of the bourgeoisie.
- Recurrent themes include political influence over the justice system, snobbery and class divisions, and the role of social background and pure chance in determining whether an individual becomes a criminal or a respected member of society.
- Besides their social background, nationalist myths have also a psychological explanation which is connected with the nationalist myth of a stable homeland community.
- Their social background was not completely different.
- A delusion has three essential qualities: it can be defined as "a false, unshakeable idea or belief (1) which is out of keeping with the patient's educational, cultural and social background (2) ...
- In terms of UPA soldiers' social background, 60 percent were peasants of low to moderate means, 20 to 25 percent were from the working class (primarily from the rural lumber and food industries), and 15 percent were members of the intelligentsia (students, urban professionals).
- The series shows people of different countries with different social background, religions, and languages existing in the same classroom, learning English as a foreign language.
- Academic grades are considered as objective measures of the students' ability and effort, irrespective of their social background.
- Literature was approached via its moral, historical and social background and literary scholarship did not focus on analysis of texts.
- Senghor claimed that "Africa’s social background of tribal community life not only makes socialism natural to Africa but excludes the validity of the theory of class struggle," thus making African socialism, in all of its variations, different from Marxism and European socialist theory.
- Because of KSČ's mandate to be a workers' party, questions about social background of party members took on a particular salience.
- These historians often focused on the social background and status of their subjects and the narratives they have written share a common outlook.
- The Cali Cartel was formed by the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and Santacruz, all coming from what is described as a higher social background than most other traffickers of the time.
- These conditions include embodiment, culture, language and social background.
- This principle maintains that "offices and positions" have to be open to all, regardless of their social background, caste or gender.
- A more realistic understanding of the "self" recognizes the social background against which life choices gain importance and meaning.
- The social background in which sex-positive feminism operates must also be understood: Christian societies are often influenced by what is understood as 'traditional' sexual morality: according to the Christian doctrine, sexual activity must only take place in marriage, and must be vaginal intercourse; sexual acts outside marriage and 'unnatural sex' (i.e. ...
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